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Anyone having problems on Billsdale? I can watch 101 to 106 but not 107 to 109. I'm getting YVM302 but i'm connected to our rooftop antenna.Unfortunately i'm stuck with watchIng females in skimpy Athletic clothing at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

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Says "possible weak signal" so looks like they've turned the wick down to allow work to be carried out up the mast near the antennas. If so then the COM7/8 muxes are likely to be the first to drop off as they are more than likely at a lower power than the main muxes.

Whatever you do do not be tempted to retune as that is likely to make things worse!

As a general comment, isn't it time for someone like DigitalUK to start listing transmitter information, for all MUXes. Currently you can go to BBC reception and see if BBC channels are having problems but that doesn't help if they are, for instance, working on COM 7 & 8 which isn't shown. You can look at the DigitalUK page but that shows that transmitters maybe having work done, but you can't check current information.

An example being, recently Brierley Hill transmitter was having work done which included periods off air, what people didn't know and there was no information on the net to tell people was that the local MUX was still on.

Virtually the entire TV transmission network is run by Arqiva. They have systems in place to inform their customers, ie the broadcasters, about work going on around the network. It probably would not be beyond the capability of Arqiva and DigitalUK between them to show more detailed information.

Then again if you were to stop a bunch of random people in the street and ask which mux they use to watch Coronation Street on they would probably stare blankly back at you as though you were speaking Martian And I suspect most people wouldn't even have a clue what transmitter they are receiving from either. Nor possibly that there is a difference between Freeview, Sky and Virgin!

But those are probably the sort of people that don't know DigitalUK exists or that they give out engineering information, so perhaps a bit more detail would not confuse them as they probably wouldn't be looking for it in the first place.